WO1999056418A1 - Systeme et procede permettant de mesurer la puissance et le taux d'erreur binaire simultanement sur des liaisons ascendantes et descendantes - Google Patents

Systeme et procede permettant de mesurer la puissance et le taux d'erreur binaire simultanement sur des liaisons ascendantes et descendantes Download PDF

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WO1999056418A1
WO1999056418A1 PCT/US1999/009109 US9909109W WO9956418A1 WO 1999056418 A1 WO1999056418 A1 WO 1999056418A1 US 9909109 W US9909109 W US 9909109W WO 9956418 A1 WO9956418 A1 WO 9956418A1
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  • the present invention relates generally to telecommunications systems and methods for maintaining voice quality in a wireless network, and specifically to measuring the power and bit error rate on the up-link and down-link channels simultaneously.
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communication
  • D-AMPS North American cellular network
  • a D- AMPS Public Land Mobile Network such as cellular network 10, which in turn is composed of a plurality of areas 12, each with a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) 14 and an integrated Visitor Location Register (VLR) 16 therein.
  • LA Location Areas
  • MS 20 is the physical equipment, e.g., a car phone or other portable phone, used by mobile subscribers to communicate with the cellular network 10, each other, and users outside the subscribed network, both wireline and wireless.
  • the MS 20 may also include a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card 13, or other memory, which provides storage of subscriber related information, such as a subscriber authentication key, temporary network data, and service related data (e.g. language preference).
  • SIM Subscriber Identity Module
  • Each Location Area 12 is divided into a number of cells 22.
  • the MSC 14 is in communication with a Base Station (BS) 24, which is the physical equipment, illustrated for simplicity as a radio tower, that provides radio coverage to the geographical part of the cell 22 for which it is responsible.
  • BS Base Station
  • the PLMN Service Area or cellular network 10 includes a Home Location Register (HLR) 26, which is a database maintaining all subscriber information, ⁇ L_, user profiles, current location information, International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) numbers, and other administrative information.
  • HLR 26 may be co-located with a given MSC 14, integrated with the MSC 14, or alternatively can service multiple MSCs 14, the latter of which is illustrated in FIGURE 1.
  • the VLR 16 is a database containing information about all of the Mobile Stations 20 currently located within the MSC/VLR area 12. If an MS 20 roams into a new MSC/VLR area 12, the VLR 16 connected to that MSC 14 will request data about that MS 20 from the home HLR database 26 (simultaneously informing the HLR
  • the local VLR 16 will have the requisite identification information without having to reinterrogate the HLR 26.
  • the VLR and HLR databases 16 and 26, respectively contain various subscriber information associated with a given MS 20.
  • speech and data are transmitted from the BS 24 to the MS 20 on a down-link channel 30 and from the MS 20 to the BS 24 on an up-link channel 32. If the power transmitted by the BS 24 on the down-link 30 is too high, in some areas of the cell 22, e ⁇ g., near the corners of the cell 22, the customer will see a good signal on the MS 20 power meter, but the MS 20 will not be able to access the system, because the up-link 32 power of the MS 20 is not strong enough. In addition, even if the MS 20 can access the system, the speech quality on the up-link 32 is usually poor.
  • the BS 24 has two receiver antennas, for diversity, and one transmitting antenna.
  • the reception on the down-link 30 can be poor, e.g.. the bit error rate (BER) is high, because the transmitting antenna is not suitably located for this area of the cell 22, but, at the same time, the reception on the up-link 32 can be good, eg , the BER is low, because at least one of the receiving antennas is located satisfactorily with respect to the same area of the cell 22. Therefore, in order to maintain a system with balance links, e.g.. up-link 32 and down-link 30, both in power and in the BER, the power and BER must be known at each point in the cell 22 for both the up-link 32 and the down-link 30, simultaneously.
  • BER bit error rate
  • a technician In order to sufficiently analyze the power and BER for the up-link 32 and down-link 30, a technician must drive the area covered by the cell 22 and compare both in real time and in off-line, the difference between the up-link 32 and the downlink 30 for both the signal strength and the BER.
  • the technician can drive the area and measure only the down-link 30. However, in this case, the down-link 30 and the up-link 32 can not be compared at every point in the cell 22.
  • the technician can compare the logs from the MSC 14, which show the reading for both the up-link 32 and the down-link 30 at the same time. However, in this case, the exact location of the MS 20 within the cell 22 is not available.
  • both the up-link 32 and down- link 30 can be measured simultaneously with knowledge of the location, but the setup has to be done in the MSC 14 and two technicians are required: one in the MSC 14 measuring and receiving the power and BER, and one driving the cell 22 with an MS 20.
  • the above solutions do not give a real time solution in the field for the drive technician.
  • an object of the invention to perform real time measurements in the field of both power and BER for both the up-link and down-link substantially simultaneously. It is a further object of the invention to allow the power and BER measurements to be performed in the field by one technician.
  • information e.g.. up-link and down-link power and BER measurements, as well as the geographical location of the mobile terminal, within the mobile terminal itself in order to analyze the system and make decisions more easily, faster and more efficiently.
  • the present invention is directed to telecommunications systems and methods for measuring the bit error rate (BER) and power on the up-link and down-link channels substantially simultaneously from the mobile terminal itself.
  • the location coordinates are already stored within the mobile terminal, and therefore, real time analysis can be performed in the field. This can be accomplished by including an application within a memory in the mobile terminal, which can initiate Link Balance (LB) start and stop commands, which are then sent from the mobile terminal to the base station.
  • LB Link Balance
  • the mobile terminal can be connected to a laptop computer, which has an application within a memory responsible for instructing the mobile terminal to send the LB start and stop commands.
  • the base station measures and calculates the power and BER on the up-link and forwards these measurements to the mobile terminal.
  • the base station continues to calculate the power and BER and transmits these measurements until the base station receives an LB stop command.
  • the mobile terminal can measure the power and BER on the down-link along with determining the position of the mobile terminal.
  • the up-link measurements, down- link measurements, and location information can then be displayed to the technician in real time, either on the mobile terminal itself or on the laptop computer to enable the technician to determine problem areas, e ⁇ g., areas where the signal strength and/or BER are not substantially equivalent on the up-link and down-link.
  • FIGURE 1 is a block diagram of a conventional terrestrially-based wireless telecommunications system
  • FIGURE 2 illustrates the measurement of power and bit error rate on both the up-link and down-link simultaneously on a mobile terminal, in accordance with preferred embodiments of the present invention.
  • FIGURE 3 illustrates the measurement of power and bit error rate on both the up-link and down-link simultaneously on a laptop computer, in accordance with preferred embodiments of the present invention.
  • a link balance application 215 can be included within a memory 210, e ⁇ ., a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card 210, in a Mobile Station (MS) 200, which can send Link Balance (LB) start 220 and stop 225 commands from the MS 200 to a Base Station (BS) 240, ⁇ _ ⁇ _, a Base Transceiver Station (BTS), serving a cell 205 that the MS 200 is currently located in.
  • SIM Subscriber Identity Module
  • BS Base Station
  • BTS Base Transceiver Station
  • the technician can activate the aforementioned link balance application 215, which can then send the LB start command 220 to the serving BS 240.
  • the BS 240 Upon receiving the LB start command 220, the BS 240 begins measuring and calculating the power and the BER on the up-link channel 230 (the channel from the MS to the BS) and forwards these measurements to the MS 200 on the down-link channel 235.
  • the measurements can be transmitted on, for example, a Slow Associated Control Channel (SACCH) or within a DATA part of a Time
  • the BS 240 continues to calculate the power and BER on the up-link channel 230 and transmits these measurements to the MS 200 until the BS 240 receives an LB stop command 225 from the MS 200. Simultaneously, the MS 200 can measure the power and BER on the down-link channel 235 and determine the current position of the MS 200.
  • the location information can be obtained using various positioning methods, such as Global Positioning Service (GPS).
  • GPS Global Positioning Service
  • the up-link measurements, down-link measurements, and location information can then be displayed to the technician in real time on a display 202 on the MS 200 itself, enabling the technician to determine problem areas, e.g.. areas where the power and BER measurements are not substantially equivalent on the up-link channel 230 and the down-link channel 235.
  • the technician can then continue to drive or traverse that area in the cell 205 to obtain as much information about that area as possible. Thereafter, this information can be downloaded into a computer (not shown) for further analysis to correct the problem. In this way, the technician does not need to re-drive the area to obtain further information after diagnosis of a problem, because the problem is made known to the technician during the initial drive.
  • the MS 300 can be connected to a laptop computer 310, which has a link balance application 318 within a memory 315, which is responsible for instructing the MS 300 to send the LB start 320 and stop 325 commands.
  • the BS 340 measures and calculates the power and BER on the up-link 330 and forwards these measurements to the computer 310, via the MS 300.
  • the BS 340 continues to calculate the power and BER and transmit these measurements until the BS 340 receives an LB stop command 325.
  • the computer 310 via the MS 300, measures the power and BER on the down-link 325, along with determining the position of the MS 300 within the cell 305.
  • the up- link measurements, down-link measurements, and location information can then be displayed to the technician in real time on a display 302 on the laptop computer 310 to enable the technician to determine problem areas while still in the field.

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La présente invention concerne un système et une méthode de télécommunications permettant de mesurer la puissance et le taux d'erreur binaire (BER) plus ou moins simultanément sur les liaisons ascendantes et descendantes à partir d'un terminal mobile et de procéder sur le terrain à une analyse en temps réel. Le principe consiste à inclure une application dans une mémoire du terminal mobile, laquelle peut lancer des ordres de début et de fin d'Equilibrage de liaisons (Link Balance/LB) depuis le terminal mobile vers la station de base. L'ordre de début LB est émis de la station mobile à la station de base, laquelle reçoit l'instruction de mesurer la puissance et le taux d'erreur binaire sur la liaison ascendante et transmettre les relevés au terminal mobile. Simultanément, le terminal mobile peut mesurer la puissance et le taux d'erreur binaire (BER) sur la liaison descendante et déterminer la localisation actuelle. Les relevés relatifs aux liaisons ascendantes et aux liaisons descendantes ainsi que les informations de localisation peuvent être affichées en temps réel, soit sur le terminal mobile lui-même, soit sur un ordinateur portable.
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